Wellbeing and place / edited by Sarah Atkinson, Sara Fuller and Joe Painter.
The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term 'wellbeing'. Nonetheless, the concept of wellbeing is itself ill-defined. Bringing together a...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Wellbeing and place / Sarah Atkinson, Sara Fuller and Joe Painter
- 2. Wellbeing : reflections on geographical engagements / David Conradson
- 3. Understanding the impact of Urban Green Space on health and wellbeing / Helen Beck
- 4. The significance of material and social contexts for health and wellbeing in rural England / Myl©·ne Riva and Sara Curtis
- 5. Wellbeing and the neighborhood : promoting choice and independence for all ages / Rose Gilroy
- 6. The role of place attachments in wellbeing / Gordon Jack
- 7. Am I an eco-warrior now? Place, wellbeing and the pedagogies of connection / Andrea Wheeler
- 8. Is 'modern culture' bad for our wellbeing? Views from 'elite' and 'excluded' Scotland / Sandra Carlisle, Phil Hanlon, David Reilly, Andrew Lyon and Gregor Henderson
- 9. Exploring embodied and emotional experiences within the landscapes of environmental volunteering / Stuart Muirhead
- 10. Place matters : aspirations and experiences of wellbeing in Northeast Thailand / Rebecca Schaaf
- 11. Wellbeing in El Alto, Bolivia
- 12. A 21st century sustainable community : discourses of local wellbeing / Karen Scott
- 13. 'We are the river' : place, wellbeing and aboriginal identity / Lorraine Gibson
- 14. The new therapeutic spaces of the spa / Jo Little
- 15. Place, place-making and planning : an integral perspective with wellbeing in (body) mind (and spirit) / Ian Wight.